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Google Android booth at MWC 2012: smoothies, robots, slides, oh my! (video) Mar 1st 2012, 10:53 Want a taste of Mobile World Congress whimsy? You've come to the right place. Like every year, Google's Android booth is the closest you'll get to experiencing Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory in real life here at Fira, and we're gonna take you on a tour. Join us as we enjoy smoothies and ice cream sandwiches, robots and Swarovski crystals, plus a trip down the rabbit hole -- in our video after the break. Continue reading Google Android booth at MWC 2012: smoothies, robots, slides, oh my! (video) Google Android booth at MWC 2012: smoothies, robots, slides, oh my! (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Currys launches 'Knowhow Movies' VOD service / money-pit Mar 1st 2012, 10:32 Today, DSGI (Currys, PC World) and Rovi launch a UK-based VOD service under the retail giant's Knowhow paid-support brand (think: Geek Squad with more overcharging). You'll be able to buy and download movies and TV to your Windows PC or stream them to a Mac using Rovi's DivX technology with adaptive streaming. The platform is promised to swell to include smart TVs, Blu-Ray players, tablets, consoles and smartphones across the forthcoming year. You'll be able to register up to five devices with the service and switch between them as you wish, as long as everything's connected to the internet. Selected movies are available to rent for around £3 ($5), or can be bought in SD/HD for £13 ($21) / £18 ($29). Just as an FYI for consumers planning on signing up: most of the titles are available to buy on DVD for around two-thirds of that price, if you can bear to wait a couple of days. Currys launches 'Knowhow Movies' VOD service / money-pit originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink HDTVUK  |  Knowhow Movies  | Email this | Comments AMD absorbs server startup SeaMicro for $330 million, says it's no impulse buy Mar 1st 2012, 09:36 AMD has faced some tough tactical decisions since it sold its handheld chip division to Qualcomm in 2008 and effectively stepped out of the smartphone business. Whistling that "No Regrets" tune, it has burrowed ever deeper into ever bigger devices, from laptops to desktops and massively multi-core servers and supercomputers. Today's purchase of Silicon Valley startup SeaMicro is an exponential leap in the same direction, because SeaMicro specializes in building low-power server hardware for entire datacenters. One of its key innovations is a "fabric" that hooks up thousands of processors, memory units and storage devices into a sensible whole for cloud computing. Rather than trying to compete with its own server-building customers, AMD may well offer them SeaMicro's platform on license and seek to recoup its $330 million investment that way. With ARM also stepping up its server efforts, it's a question of snoozing and losing. Continue reading AMD absorbs server startup SeaMicro for $330 million, says it's no impulse buy AMD absorbs server startup SeaMicro for $330 million, says it's no impulse buy originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink PCWorld  |   | Email this | Comments

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